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Ramanujan
Biography Childhood
Ramanujan was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. His father, Attipat Asuri
Krishnaswami, an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Mysore University, was
known for his interest in English, Kannada and Sanskrit languages. His mother was a
homemaker. Ramanujan also has a brother, A.K. Srinivasan who is a writer and a
mathematician.
Education
Ramanujan was educated at Marimallappa's High School, Mysore, and at the Maharaja
College of Mysore. In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his freshman year, but his
father, who thought him 'not mathematically minded', persuaded him to change his major
from science to English. Later, Ramanujan became a Fellow of Deccan College, Pune in 1958
– 59 and a Fulbright Scholar at Indiana University in 1959 – 62. He was educated in English
at the University of Mysore and received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University.
Amit Chaudhuri
Early life
Career
As a young student, Dutt was influenced by the thoughts and actions of the Young Bengal-a
movement by a group of illustrious former students of The Hindu College (now Presidency
College) in Calcutta (now Kolkata) against the atrocities, blind beliefs and customs they held
as illogical, prevalent in the Hindu society of 19th century Bengal. Dutt, a student of Hindu
College himself, aspired to be an English poet and longed to travel to England to gain fame.
When his father, concerned by these trends, arranged his marriage, he rebelled. One aspect of
his rebellion involved conversion to Christianity. Dutt is widely considered to be one of the
greatest poets in Bengali literature and the father of the Bengali sonnet. He pioneered what
came to be called amitrakshar chhanda (blank verse). Dutt died in Calcutta, Bengal
Presidency on 29 June 1873. Although his first love remained poetry, Michael Madhusudan
Dutt, or Madhu- as he was called affectionately,showed prodogious skill as a playwright. He
was the first to write Bengali plays in the English style, segregating the play into acts and
scenes. He was also the pioneer of the first satirical plays in Bengali – "Buro Salik er Ghare
Row"(Bengali-ববুডডড শডললিডকের ঘডডড ররড) and "Ekei Ki Bole Sovyota(Bengali-এডকেই লকে বডলি
সভভ্যতড?) (Is this what we call Civilisation?". When Deenabandhu Mitra wrote a Bengali play
portraying the plight of the workers in indigo plantations at the hands of their British masters,
Dutt was the person who translated the play into English.
Jagannath Prasad Das
In 2007, Dr Pradhan received Indian Express Citizen for Peace Prize from Shyam Benegal
for his essays on communal harmony. He has also won First Prize in All-India Inter-bank
Hindi Essay Competition for 2007–08, a prize he also won in 2006–07 for his essays on
micro-finance and financial inclusion. He also won First Prize in the RBIA Silver Jubilee
essay competition on Future of Central Banking conducted by Reserve Bank of India in
2007–08. He was the First Prize winner in RBI Brand Building Competition, 2007 for his
bold satirical essay "Dreaming the RBI Brand", which created shock waves in the Reserve
Bank fraternity. Earlier he had won Third prize in World Habitat Day Essay Competition
2007 for his essay titled Green & Intelligent Buildings and Urban Infrastructure. During his
student days he had won many literary prizes including Upasika Kamaladevi Award for
essays on Buddhism, Shatadru prize for short story and Ankur prize for poetry etc. He was
Utkal University literary champion during 1993–94. Pradhan's poem "The Buddha Smiled"
won commendation first prize in All India Poetry Competition 2013 [12] conducted by Poetry
Society (India).